Receptacle



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RECEPTACLE Filed Jan. 25, 1930 Patented Mar. 20, 1934 UNITED STATES RECEPTAGLE Horace E. Whitney, Cambridge, Mass assignor to Dover Stamping & Manufacturing Company Cambridge, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application January 25, 1930, Serial No. 423,456

4 Claims. (01. 184-1.5)

The invention relates to an improvement in receptacles and especially to a receptacle into which oil or other fluid may be discharged and afterward the discharged oil contained in the receptacle be poured from it.

The essential object of the invention is to provide a discharge receptacle "of the above character into which oil from the crank case of an automobile may be discharged. In present-day practice the automobile is liftedsome distance off the ground when the oil from its crank case is drawn off, and the special object of the invention is to provide a discharge or draw-off receptacle especially designed to meet this condition of use, and one embodying the elements of convenience, cleanliness in the sense of preventing any escape of the discharged oil, and flexibility by which it will meet practically all conditions of use.

The invention can best be seen and understood by reference to the drawing in which examples thereof are shown and in which- Figure 1' is a view mainly in cross vertical section of one example of a receptacle embodying the invention, and

Fig. 2 is a cross section on the line 22 0 Fi 1.

Referring to the drawing:-

In the example of the receptacle shown in Fig. 1, 1 represents the body of the receptacle. This body is in the nature of a can having a handle 2, and a pour-out or nozzle 3. 4 represents a top which makes closed connection with the body all around, and both the handle and the pourout are preferably mounted upon this top for reasons presently to be explained. The top 4 has a central opening 5 in it, and connecting with the top and extending vertically upward therefrom in extension ofthe opening 5 is an inlet pipe 6. This pipe is preferably one of some considerable length; in practice it is a little less than two feet long. Both the nozzle 3 and the handle 2 are utilized for the purpose of assisting in rigidilysupporting this pipe. To this end a brace 7 is extended between the pipe and the nozzle whichis mounted upon the top 4 of the body as aforesaid. The handle fixed at one end to the top 4, is fastened rigidly at its other end to the pipe, thereby, also, assisting in its support.

The inlet. pipe 6 is provided with an extension 8 fitted to slide telescopically within it. The extension 8 is preferably made of some considerable length; in practice about three feet; so that the pipe 6 with its extension 8 will form an inlet pipe or conduit some five feet long.

Means are provided for holding the extension 8 in any adjusted position with relation to the pipe 6 but. without interfering with the freedom or its telescopic movement with relation to the main pipe. To this end the pipe 6 at its top end is upset to form an annular socket-forming offset 9. Retained to lie within the chamber of this off-set is a split elastic wire ring 10 which embraces the pipe extension 8 so, tightly that, while it will not prevent the extension from moving telescopically with relation to the pipe 6, yet it will operate to hold the extension 8 in any adjusted position.

The depth of the body 1 together with the relative lengths of the pipe 6 and its extension 8 are preferably such that when the extension has been telescopically moved into the pipe 6 to approximately its full length the bottom end 12 of the extension will not strike the bottom 13 of the receptacle body. As a positive stop for preventing such striking the extension 8 at a point adjacent its top end is provided with an annular shoulder 14 formed by upsetting the pipe at this point and this annular shoulder is adapted to contact with the top end 15 of the pipe 8 when the extension 8 has been telescopically moved intothe pipe 6 and-just before the bottom end 12 'of the extension has engaged the bottom 13 of the receptacle body.

Fitting into the top end of the inlet pipe extension 8 is the tubular bottom end 16 ot a funnel 17. QIZ

In Fig. 1 the receptacle is shown in working position with relation to the crank case of an automobile of which a represents a portion thereof, and b the plug normally controlling its discharge opening. As will be seen the inlet pipe leading to the receptacle body is so extended that the -funnel will lie just beneath the discharge opening of the crank case in order that the oil therein, when the plug is removed, wfll all fall into the funnel and flow through the inlet pipe or pipes into the body or the receptacle.

The plug b controlling the discharge opening in the crank caseis ordinarily loosened by a wrench and then manually removed. In the present case age ota crank case only when the body 01 the receptacle was empty, yet it may, owing tothe carelessness of an operator, sometimes happen that the receptacle will be used when its body-is partly fllled with oil, so that the oil contained within the receptacle together with the oil contained in the crank case would amount to more than the capacity of the receptacle or rather body 0! the receptacle. In such case the oil continuing to be discharged from the crank case would overflow the top or the tunnel. This is obviated in the present receptacle in that oil discharged into the funnel and flowing into the body of the receptacle will discharge through the pour-out after the body of the receptacle has become illled, thereby preventing any possibility of an overflow occurring from the top of the funnel. The arrangement of the pour-out is also such that in case oil discharged into the receptacle rises sufliciently to discharge through the pour-out this oil may be caught in any suitable receptacle placed beneath the mouth of the nomle inasmuch as the,pour-out projects outward beyond the side of the receptacle body per-v mitting of an auxiliary receptacle being placed beneath the projecting end or mouth of the pourout.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States:-

1. A receptacle comprising a chambered body, a top to said body, a pour-out spout on said top with extension beyond the side of said body and outlet above the top thereof, an inflexible inlet pipe for the chamber connected to said top and having an upward extension above said pourout spout and rigidly connected to the spout, a handle connected to said top and to said inlet pipe at a point above the body to cooperate with the connection of said pipe with said spout to reinforce said parts, and a funnel at the top end of said extension.

2. In an automobile servicing device a portable collection receptacle adapted for use in draining oil from an automobile crank case or similar casing when the automobile is occupyina an elevated position to permit an attendant to stand thereunder, said portable receptacle comprising a can having a rigid pipe extending substantially vertically from its top and supporting an adjustable extension capable of being raised to a plurality oi sustained positions so that it may be brought in close proximity to the crank case, and a tunnel on the upper end of said extension into which oil may be drained from said case.

3. A receptacle as claimed in claim 2 including a pair of telescopic pipes, the outer of which is secured to the top at the receptacle, while the inner pipe is 01 greater length than the outer pipe and provided with a projection to engage with the top of the outer pipe to limit its entry movement into the can, said projection being positioned at a distance from its lower end which is slightly less than the distance from the top of the outer pipe to the bottom of the receptacle, whereby the bottom of the inner tube is prevented from engaging the bottom of thereceptacle when the inner pipe is telescoped intothe outer tube to the maximum extent.

4. A portable collection receptacle adapted for use in draining oil from an automobile crank case or similar casing when the automobile is cocupying an elevated position'to permit an attendant to stand thereunder, said portable receptacle comprising a can having a rigid pipe extending substantially vertically from its top and supporting an adjustable extension capable of being raised to a plurality of sustained positions so that it may be brought in close proximity to the crank case, a funnel-shaped extremity on the upper end of said extension into which oil may be drained'from said case, and a spout on the can positioned and extending thereon whereby overflow from said can may be directed to an additional receptacle positioned adjacent thereto.

I, HORACE E. WHITNEY. 

